…Mahonia nitens ‘Cabaret’ Mahonia nitens ‘Cabaret’ Ceratostigma willmottianum ‘Forest Blue’ has just finishing flowering but still a most attractive blue. Ceratostigma willmottianum ‘Forest Blue’ The Acer palmatum varieties imported from…
…superb at this time of the year. Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Heavenly Blue’ Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Heavenly Blue’ Callistemon ‘Red Cluster’ with secondary flowers. Callistemon ‘Red Cluster’ Our new pictorial labelling…
…syriacus ‘Blue Bird’ Hibiscus syriacus ‘Blue Bird’ Cautleya spicata ‘Robusta’ just out in flower. Not the most exciting ‘Ginger’ I have ever seen. Cautleya spicata ‘Robusta’ Marsdenia oreophila out in…
…come out. Small tree. Clethra cavalieri Clethra cavalieri Dichroa ‘Cambridge Blue’ – excellent and a plant to get. Dichroa ‘Cambridge Blue’ Dichroa ‘Cambridge Blue’ Styrax japonica ‘Evening Light’ Styrax japonica…
…good show in the Aucklandii Garden today in the fading light. Camellia ‘St Ewe’ with ‘JCW’ Our best clump of blue mophead hydrangeas still have plenty of blue showing in…
…‘African Queen’ as good purples and by ‘Blue Horizon’ as a darker blue. B. ‘Orchid Beauty’ has spectacular balls of flowers up the flower spike. B. ‘Santana’ is better than…
…this year. Magnolia ‘J. C. Williams’ Magnolia ‘Philip’s Surprise’ with a blue sky. Magnolia ‘Philip’s Surprise’ 2024 – CHW The Garden Society Dinner in London and 4 species of Lindera…
…The Olive grove has been tidied up We are trying to grow Brahea armata – Mexican Blue Palm – in Kennel Close and above the greenhouse. So far they are…
…rigida Euphorbia rigide Pinus palustris Pinus palustris Pinus palustris Camellia ‘Mercury Supreme’ Camellia ‘Mercury Supreme’ Camellia ‘Pastel Shades’ Camellia ‘Pastel Shades’ Helleborus ‘Blue Metallic Lady’ Helleborus ‘Blue Metallic Lady’ Coleonema…
…as it gets as I well remember from 3 years ago. Paul Young-Jamieson 2017 – CHW Glorious sun and a blue sky for the magnolias. I will let the pictures…
…secondary flowers. This single one by George’s Hut is not far off the spring norm in colour but a bit smaller. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Rhododendrnon ‘Blue Tit’ with its usual…
…it is in August. Fuchsia and Echium seedlings The evergreen Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ is excellent as well. Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ Garrya…
…an interesting dwarf holly. Ilex x meserveae ‘Little Rascal’ Skimmia japonica subsp. reevesiana with berries already. Skimmia japonica subsp. reevesiana Lobelia ‘Starship Rose’ and ‘Strawberry Blue’ – nice enough but…
…‘Yakeo’. Rhododendron ‘Martha Wright’ Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ and Rhododendron veitchianum ‘Cubittii Group’. Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ and Rhododendron ‘Elizabeth’. Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ A single tiny flower on the aptly named…
…Sheep A pen of Batch Blue Texels. Texels And a Jacob sheep. Jacob sheep Calf judging. Calf Miniature goats. goats And miniature donkeys! donkeys Pigs in repose. Pigs Rows of…
…paxii: Blue undersides to leaves Acer sacchorum subsp. skutchii: Mexico Acer wardii Actinidia rubrifolia var. coriacea: Red flowers Betula calcicola: Dwarf shrub curled and furry/hairy new growth Betula skvortsovii Betula…
…laundry building laundry building laundry building These blue barrels will be used as supplementary pheasant feeders for all the birds which survived the last, much-shortened, shooting season. blue barrels Prunus…
…now too against a cold blue sky. Magnolia ‘Petit Chicon’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ has been out for weeks. Still holding up well despite all the east wind and some frost. Magnolia…
…down by the pond. Rhododendron augustinii ‘Penheale Blue’ Rhododendron augustinii ‘Penheale Blue’ First flower out on the pure white form of Staphylea holocarpa. We do not have the white form…
…blue carpet. bluebells The Asiatic magnolia season reached its zenith this week and will now fade out with a few New Zealanders still to go. Despite the early start in…